• Family goes China-free for a year

    Sara Bongiorni and her family boycotted all “made in China” products for a year. And it was tough. Sara wrote about her family’s experience in a newly relseased book, “A Year Without ‘Made in China.”‘ She muses that buying shoes […]

  • Debunking the global warming myth

    All it takes is a little science… I’ve asked many a global warming believer what the “temperature” of the earth would be without people and without pollution and without all of the other naughty things they believe to cause global […]

  • Crazy Eddie on CNBC

    Last night the Crazy Eddie story was shown on Business Nation, in a short but interesting segment. The show featured a showdown between Eddie Antar and Sam Antar, cousins who perpetrated a massive corporate fraud for years. When asked if […]

  • More on Sarbanes-Oxley and boards of directors

    I got a mention this week on a blog called The Race to the Bottom: A consistently anti-Sarbanes-Oxley site is The FRAUDFiles Blog. Last week, for example, the blog noted a study discussing the changes in boards as a result […]

  • The enormous cost of complying with Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404

    The Securities and Exchange Commission is being asked to take another look at the cost of complying with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. This section deals with internal controls in public companies, and a major criticism of SOX is […]

  • A local entrepreneur success story

    The Business Journal had a great feature on Kelly and Jeff Fitzsimmons. Kelly is a well-known Milwaukee entrepreneur, and this venture seems a bit of a change from computer security. Their idea is an “American Idol” type of website for […]

  • Fascinating look into the mind of a white collar criminal

    Sam Antar says the following about his crimes: “What I did was pure evil. I am going to probably fry in hell for many years before I get upstairs. We were nothing but cold hearted and soulless criminals. We were […]

  • $54 million lawsuit over a pair of pants is decided

    The case of the pants lost by the drycleaners and the ensuing $54 million lawsuit has been decided. District of Columbia Superior Court Judge Judith Bartnoff ruled that Custom Cleaners did not violate the Consumer Protection Act with its “Satisfaction […]

  • Two-year-old admitted to Mensa

    Wow! A two-year-old with an IQ of 152 is being admitted to Mensa in Britain. Her recent IQ test results indicate she’s at the level of a five or six-year-old. Mensa is the “High IQ Society,” or the international society […]

  • Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC)

    Did you know that I’m a graduate of the Criminal Investigator Training Program (CIT) at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) in Glynco, Georgia? This site gets lots of hits from people searching for information on FLETC, so I […]